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15-letter words containing i, m, u, n, o, r

  • instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
  • intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • job requirement — a quality or qualification that you must have in order to be suitable for a certain job
  • junior minister — politics
  • kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • linear momentum — force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object or course of events: The car gained momentum going downhill. Her career lost momentum after two unsuccessful films.
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • macrosporangium — megasporangium.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • marcus antonius — Mark (Marcus Antonius) 83?–30 b.c, Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.
  • marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
  • mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • maxilloturbinal — (anatomy) Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.
  • measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
  • member function — A method in C++.
  • menispermaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Menispermaceae, a family of mainly tropical and subtropical plants, most of which are woody climbers with small flowers
  • meritoriousness — The property of being meritorious.
  • microbusinesses — Plural form of microbusiness.
  • microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
  • micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
  • microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
  • microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
  • miniaturisation — Alternative spelling of miniaturization.
  • miniaturization — to make in extremely small size in order to keep volume or weight to a minimum: to miniaturize electronic equipment.
  • misarticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
  • misconstruction — wrong construction; misinterpretation: to put a misconstruction upon an action.
  • misdistribution — Incorrect or unfair distribution.
  • molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
  • monoculturalism — The practice of actively preserving a culture to the exclusion of external influences.
  • montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
  • moravian church — a Protestant Church originating in Moravia in 1722 as a revival of the sect of Bohemian Brethren. It has close links with the Lutheran Church
  • mortiferousness — deadliness
  • motor insurance — insurance for a motor vehicle such as a car, which provides protection against loss in the event of an accident, theft, etc
  • motoring public — the population that drive road vehicles
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae
  • mountain laurel — any of various ericaceous shrubs or trees of the genus Kalmia, esp K. latifolia of E North America, which has leathery poisonous leaves and clusters of pink or white flowers
  • mountain rescue — search and rescue conducted on a mountain, for example of someone who has fallen, got lost, etc
  • mouse droppings — 1.   (graphics, operating system, jargon)   Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2.   (web, jargon)   The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • mules operation — the surgical removal of folds of skin in the breech of a sheep to reduce blowfly strike
  • multi-binprolog — (language)   A multi-threaded Linda-style parallel extension to BinProlog for Solaris 2.3. Version: 3.30.
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
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